Toast to Gatorade founder

Orlando SentinelCHICAGO TRIBUNE

The fitting finish Friday night would have gone like this: Robert Cade, the professor emeritus who found his way into Florida's Athletics Hall of Fame, capping his induction into that Hall by taking a cooler of Gatorade over the head. But Cade is 79 and is in poor health, so it was a traditional ceremony for the man who led a team of four researchers that invented Gatorade more than 40 years ago. The drink will keep Cade and Florida linked and rich forever. "Gatorade is one of the great business stories of all time," CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell said. "It's great to see him honored for that legend."